What do you use to [create, edit, delete, update] posts/content on your html website?

Question

You buy a web host from GoDaddy, Bluehost, Namecheap, etc. — Which gives you access to cPannel so you can upload your files. So, you Upload your JS, HTML, CSS, etc. files using cPannel or other method.

Now when you need to update/create content/post, you could login to the cPannel, open the file, make changes to the html file, save.

But that’s probably a lot of work, having to rearrange/edit the html every time you want to update something.

So, do you guys do it differently? if yes what do you do?

Answer 1

So do you guys know of a different to do it (instead of having to login to the cpannel everytime, find the gile, opening file, edit, etc.)

Maybe using an API?

Answer 2

You can use a content management system, such as Wordpress, that lets you creat posts and pages and use templates to design the looks of the site. Or you could create your own content based site using PHP/MySQL with HTML/CSS to design a site that does whatever you want.

There are also shopping cart systems, web forum systems, and much more. It’s a lot of work to build a site with extensive functionality without using a prebuilt system like that.

For very small sites, you just keep editing the HTML. If you use a good HTML editor software, it will accept ftp credentials and do the upload/downloads for you making the process pretty seamless for manual edits.

Answer 3

What you actually need is something called BACKEND with REST API, so that when for example you do files upload or modify content , it will be done programmatically and dynamically without touching the front-end, one of the easiest yet powerful backend is Django.